> the complete garbage that is iTunes.

I’ve become an Apple fan as I’ve spent most of my IT time in their ecosystem over last 5 years. I’ve come to appreciate their UI pattern (which was confusing at first due to my conditioning of Linux), the consistency, nifty little features.

However to this day I just couldn’t get used to their iTunes (and now Apple Music) UX. I’m always fumbling around, searching for a song is a same sequence of confusing clicks and swipes. I thought it was me but now I’m convinced that it’s just a garbage of a software.

Speaking of their UI pattern, I just don't understand why MacOS doesn't indicate when one software has 2 or more open windows. For example, if you open 2 Word documents, the Word app will only show one, and there's no intuitive way to tell if there's a second window, and no intuitive way to switch to the second window. My wife has had a Mac for 10 years and still only semi understands how these windows work.

Edit: comments below are trying to tell me how to switch windows, of course I know how. My point is MacOS doesn't tell you there are multiple windows. On PC, the Dock will show "stacked" icons.

Apple is gently telling you you're holding your phone, sorry, Word, wrong, and you shouldn't do that.

I'm not kidding, for some of this stuff that's their actual line of reasoning.

They probably want you to use some other window management feature, regardless if you want to use it or not.

Go to the Trackpad settings, go to "More Gestures," turn on "App Exposé." Three finger swipe down will reveal all windows in an application.

You can also cycle between windows in an application with Command + ` (tilde or backtick key)

Also, In the Keyboard settings, there's a shortcut under Mission Control for "Application Windows," set to Control + Down by default.

This is my other complaint.

Having to have their stupid track pad to have functionality sucks.

I want a mouse and keyboard. A keyboard that doesn't fist fuck a Fn key where the Ctrl key is supposed to be.

A keyboard with a delete button.

A keyboard with a number pad.

You know. .. Like grown ups use.

Like this? https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMMR3LL/A/magic-keyboard-...

No Fn key, delete button, number pad.

200 for a 40 dollar keyboard to restore functionality they took away bc they're brave and different

Use “App Expose” to show multiple windows (you can configure this to a swipe down gesture).

Use Command+` (backtick) to switch between windows.

Yeah this is fucking horrible. I have tons of shit open

I shouldn't have to see all of it to find the one thing I want. I should be able to pick from the app.

There's an app out there called ubar which replaces the dock and it's functionality is amazing. But it's memory hog and freezes all the time.

I'm forced to use a Mac for work

Probably the most powerful machine I've ever owned. I have a giant ass 40+ in curved monitor.

I still prefer my 10+ year old Dell laptop with an aging Linux distro on it.

Hell.. I prefer Windows.

Using a Mac is so painful. The moronic fn key placement.

Using a terminal reverts back to using the Ctrl key but everything else uses ⌘

There's no real concept of window management.

The version of Bash is 10+ years old.

I've always hated the "menu bar" but now that I have a monitor bigger than Lizzo's ass I really hate it. Having to drag my cursor 45miles up to get to Edit is idiotic.

The number of apps I have to install to get it to function like a real desktop makes my system tray look like it did on Windows XP SP2.

Nevermind whenever my non-apple Bluetooth headset connects it auto-opens Apple Music even though I've never once used it and I never will. There's zero way to disable this functionality. Zero.

MacOS is an abortion

On my droid about 2.5gb of garbage of a software.

And yet it almost works on Google assistant, with hardly any installation.

I too get lost from playlist and search/song wandering, but Apple isn't unique in this regard.

I've been an Apple fan since 2008. Their media apps are just bad and have they have been for years.

If only there were a way to script Apple applications, perhaps some kind of architecture, for scripting, that was open, and Apple's own apps actually supported it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript#Open_Scripting_Arc...

Can you script a CD-ROM to jump off its shelf and into the CD-ROM reader?

Can you script Steve Jobs to let them simply submit the high quality rips and metadata they already had?

You could probably emulate a CD driver using the WAV files from your server.

This is a neat idea! I wish I had some software to test this entire workflow and build some automation, just for fun. :)

Well his brain is not your brain, and no matter how ridiculous you think he is, he has the final outcome of Apple to prove he's right. Put a different person in his position and the company would have bankrupted.

I don't know how it is today, but I've noticed both spelling mistakes and ripping errors on bought content from iTunes (Music).

>even though you already have everything on file elsewhere already?

Sounds like an opportunity to automate much of that...

Yeah, no doubt. Everything can be automated. And I'm sure some dirty hack was cobbled together to work around the situation rather than turning some poor human into a zombie with both RSI and PTSD. I'd hope.

But let's not turn the tables that way. My point is that "opportunity" should have been addressed _before_ Steve Jobs decided to fly in all those industry bigwigs to do his sales pitch. I mean, who was selling who here exactly? Different times I guess...

I really don't have a problem with putting the onus on the owner to make sure their information is correct, let them prioritize and so on.

It's not ideal, but in 2003 the idea that everything has an API was still very pie in the sky for A LOT of things.

That's fair, but there didn't even need to be an API. Just some feature to import WAV files and/or track listings would have gone a long way.